Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Zhan Zheng suddenly stood up and paced around the room in a flustered manner: "Yinyin, have you discovered anything else?"

“Of course there are more,” Yin Yin said, laying out the bottom few pages containing all the poems she had collected about the plagiarist.

"A person's writing style is habitual, and it may change due to emotions and experiences, but the difference should not be too great at the same time."

“But look, brother, he wrote ‘The lotus buds are just beginning to emerge,’ ‘I would rather die embracing the fragrance on the branch,’ and ‘The wind is fierce, the sky is high, and the monkeys howl sadly.’ He wrote ‘The road is full of the fragrance of fine horses and carved carriages,’ yet he also wrote ‘The long smoke of the setting sun and the lonely city are closed.’”

"It's not that I look down on him, but the writing styles here are so different that it's hard not to have some questions."

"He had witnessed prosperous scenes and even encountered fierce winds and high skies in the mountains, but how could someone who had never been to the frontier write about long stretches of smoke and setting sun?"

"Ever since I saw the servant’s words and the line ‘Song Dynasty, Yang Wanli,’ I put these poems together and suddenly felt that it was like a collection of poems, containing only the most essential and outstanding works from all dynasties."

"As for why we've never seen it, could it be because..."

Before Yinyin could finish speaking, a clap of thunder suddenly rang out.

Seeing Yin Yin startled, Zhan Zheng's face darkened instantly. He pulled Yin Yin behind him, raised his head, and said, "Those with ill intentions, and not of this world, do they deserve the protection of Heaven?"

After waiting for a while, there was no further unusual activity. However, the two heard a voice from outside.

"How strange! Just a moment ago, the sky was covered with dark clouds and thunder roared, but suddenly the clouds have dispersed and the sky has cleared."

Zhan Zheng was about to return to his seat when he turned around and saw Yin Yin staring intently at him, her eyes shining brightly in the light.

He coughed lightly: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Big brother, you're so amazing," Yin Yin quietly looked up at the clear sky outside through the skylight, "Big brother, do you think I should learn some fortune-telling techniques? I think it might be quite suitable for me."

“Nonsense,” Zhan Zheng reached out and gently tapped her head twice. “What are you doing studying fortune telling, a lowly profession?”

Seeing Yin Yin's somewhat dejected face, Zhan Zheng still whispered, "However, you can still study this book, the Book of Changes, carefully."

“I understand,” Yin Yin said happily. “I will definitely study the Book of Changes well.”

With so many classics and historical texts to study, not everyone is an all-around academic genius. Many are specialized in one area due to their family's scholarly traditions. For example, the Xun family excelled in the study of the Book of Rites, while the Yu family was more inclined towards the Spring and Autumn Annals.

So it's not surprising that Yin Yin is interested in and studies the Book of Changes diligently.

As for her research being slightly off-track, that doesn't matter. She doesn't need to take exams, nor does she go out to tell fortunes. She dabbles in everything, so of course we let her be.

Actually, Yin Yin was even happier than Zhan Zheng had imagined.

Fifteen or sixteen years later, she finally managed to bring out what she had learned her whole life in the open, which was no easy feat.

Her hand hung down gently, seemingly casually brushing against the jade pendant hanging from her waist. Soon, this place would be fitted with a newly made horoscope; she was truly looking forward to it.

The matter of the horoscope captivated Yin Yin's attention, and she even lost some interest in dealing with the plagiarist. As previously agreed, she left most of the matters to Zhan Zheng.

However, some strange things still reached her ears through her subordinates.

"On their way to the palace after receiving the imperial edict, Abbot Dugu of Yuqing Temple and Abbot Yuanqing of Baoen Temple happened to see that young master Huang."

Abbot Yuanqing immediately glared and shouted, "Where did these wandering ghosts come from, preventing the deceased from resting in peace?" Abbot Dugu also said, "Your life force is mixed and corrupted, all taken from others, and it has already backfired."

“Miss, you don’t know, everyone who was sitting with Young Master Huang immediately moved far away from him. No matter what he said, no one believed him. Some even called the city patrol guards and had Young Master Huang arrested. Abbot Dugu and Abbot Yuanqing both said they would report to His Majesty after entering the palace and exorcise the evil spirits.”

What happened after that was beyond the reach of Yin Yin's subordinates. All he knew was that the emperor had Abbot Dugu perform a public ritual for Young Master Huang, and although no one was touched during the entire ceremony, Young Master Huang screamed terribly and collapsed. His flesh decayed in a very short time, turning into a skeleton.

While the onlookers were frightened, they became even more devout to Yuqing Temple and Bao'en Temple, with Yuqing Temple becoming particularly popular.

As for the girls from brothels who had been intimate with Young Master Huang, they were all disgusted by him. After learning that the poems he wrote were all stolen from others, their reputations collapsed.

As for the remains that originally belonged to Young Master Huang, they were naturally collected by people from the Huang family. However, the Huang family was still in turmoil at this time. They had gained as much benefit as they had when the 'Plagiarist' was famous, and now they were giving it all back, even losing a considerable amount.

After all, even the servants noticed something was amiss, so how could the family members not have noticed anything? If they truly hadn't noticed, why would they have let him replace all the people around him who were originally useful? They were just pretending to be ignorant.

Originally, some people secretly wanted to use the fact that the man had been keeping an eye on the Zhan family's exploitation to drag Zhan Zheng down with them, but the emperor suppressed their advances.

Upon learning this, Yin Yin specifically asked Zhan Zheng, "Isn't His Majesty always sitting high in the hall? Why would he suddenly help our family?"

Zhan Zheng glanced at the door subconsciously before whispering, "When Abbot Dugu and Abbot Yuanqing entered the palace, I happened to be in the palace with His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Abbot Yuanqing said I have the appearance of longevity, while Abbot Dugu said I have the destiny of Xuanwu, a wise minister bestowed by heaven, who can assist the king in sweeping across the six directions and pacifying the four seas."

Yin Yin opened her mouth as if to say something, then closed it again. After thinking for a moment, she asked again, "Big brother, these two didn't take anything from you, did they?"

“Don’t even mention you, I was thinking about that very thing back then,” Zhan Zheng said, his lips twitching. “I did interfere with Abbot Dugu and Abbot Yuanqing’s entry into the palace, but I made sure they encountered that ‘wandering ghost’ on purpose. I didn’t do anything else.”

Yinyin nodded thoughtfully: "It seems His Majesty has investigated this matter thoroughly and knows that it has nothing to do with you."

"Now I understand why His Majesty chose Abbot Dugu when it came to dealing with that thing."

Looking at these two words, it's obvious which one the emperor preferred and who he thought was more capable!